Request Autobiography by Simon Andre (10 results)

Green Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor Dustjacket. First Edition, First Printing. 180 Pp.First Printing, 1957. Hardcover. A Fine Book, Inscribed As A Gift From Dudley Sommers In 1965. Sommers Was Author Of "Haldane Of Cloan". Dust Jacket Worn, Chipped And Torn, Lacking Top 1/3 Of Spine Panel, Front Panel Completely Detached Along Front Spine Edge. Photographs (illustrator).…

London: The Wine and Food Society, 1957. Inscribed to Walter Muir Whitehall. V G in dj with slipcover.Dj slightly chipped. 25 cm. ix pp. 180 pp. b/w photographic plates and frontispiece drawing. . Inscribed to Walter Muir Whitehall. V G in dj with slipcover.Dj slightly chipped.

1st edition, hardback, large 8vo, xii,180pp, illustrated, edges and endpapers browning, text clean and sound, no inscriptions, blue cloth, stained on rear board, Good / no dustwrapper.

Hb in Dw ix,180pp frontisplate and illustrations Small ink inscription to fep o/w a Vg/Vg bright copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Blue cloth with gilt spine slabel. Fore-edge of dust-jacket with some spotting, otherwise near fine.Ex libris David and Diana Burns, with a presentation inscription to him from the author (dated 1964). Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st UK Edition. 180 pages in very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked with black and white plates throughout. Previous owner's signature on the ffep. Page edges are lightly spotted on the head edges. Bound in green-blue cloth with gilt titles and blue accent on the spine. Lightly worn around the edges. Lightly scuffed. Lightly faded on the spine. 1ST UK EDITION. VG/- - Size: 6 1/2 x 10. Book.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Hardback Edition. 255 x 170mm. pp. 180. English text. Flat-signed first hardback edition of 'By Request: An Autobiography By Andre L, Simon'. Black and white photographic illustrations. Bound in original blue boards. Housed in blue and cream dust jacket. A somewhat worn copy of this interesting book with cocking to spine and some toning to endpages and edges. Boards show some mottling, and dust jacket has some chips and closed tears. Binding strong. No underlining. Dust jacket protected with removable mylar cover. A worn, but signed copy. See images. SIGNED.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. SIMON, Andre INSCRIBED on FFEP [180] pp. The Wine And Food Society 1957 10" x 6 5/8" André Simon (28 February 1877 5 September 1970) was a French-born wine merchant, gourmet, and prolific writer about wine. Hugh Johnson describes him as "the charismatic leader of the English wine trade for almost all of the first half of the 20th century, and the grand old man of literate connoisseurship for a further 20 years". Inscribed by Author(s).…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First edition. A signed presentation copy of the first edition of Andre Simon's autobiography, with a signed letter from the author. Flat signed by the author to the front free endpaper, with a tipped in signed letter to the half title, dated 1957, reading 'My dear Walter Allen, thank you so much for your very kind gift! Please accept this latest (not the last yet!) book of mine with my best wishes, yours Andre L Simon'.The first edition, first impression, in the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.Illustrated with a frontispiece and four plates. Collated, complete.The autobiography of André Simon, a French-born wine merchant, writer, and one of the foremost authorities on wine in 20th-century Britain. In 1933, he founded the Wine and Food Society to cultivate a broader understanding of good food and wine, shaping modern wine culture in the English-speaking world, and publishedthe influential A Concise Encyclopedia of Gastronomy. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent, with a touch of fading to back strip. Inscription to front free endpaper, letter pasted to half title. Dust wrapper lacking back strip, with front and rear wraps and flyleaves all present, but detached from one another. Significant chipping and closed tears to wrap perimeters, with handling marks to wraps, most concentrated to tail of front wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright, with the odd spot. Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). signed by author. book.…

Tall hardback, 8vo. 10 x 6.25 inches. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Light blue endpapers. In Dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (DW tear to rear edge of spine, small chips to corners and spine ends, some spots to bottom edge on front. In protective sleeve.) A couple of minor handling marks to cloth. Author?s inscription to front endpaper ?To Valerie Thornton, with all good wishes, Andre L. Simon, Christmas 1957.? Inside pages all very clean and tight. Plates all tissue guarded. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 180pp. With 6 B&W illustrations including frontis portrait. (2 are on one plate.).…